Asperger's children : the origins of autism in Nazi Vienna
(2018)
By:
Sheffer, Edith
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
618.928588/SHEFFER,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393609646, 0393609642 :, 0393609642, 9780393609646
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Chapter 1. Enter the experts -- Chapter 2. The clinic's diagnosis -- Chapter 3. Nazi psychiatry & social spirit -- Chapter 4. Indexing lives -- Chapter 5. Fatal theories -- Chapter 6. Asperger & the killing system -- Chapter 7. Girls & boys -- Chapter 8. The daily life of death -- Chapter 9. In service to the volk -- Chapter 10. Reckoning
Presents an exploration of the sobering history behind Asperger's Syndrome that reveals child psychiatrist Hans Asperger's influence by Nazi psychiatry and his use of one of the Reich's deadliest killing centers to experiment on disabled children